Office of the Historian

740.00119 European War 1939/9–2543: Telegram

The British Prime Minister (Churchill) to President Roosevelt 1

[London, September 24, 1943.]

421. My No. 420 of September 24th. Macmillan now tells me he is confident that Badoglio’s signature can be obtained to whole set of terms within the next few days and that the longer we leave it the more haggling there will be. It may be some time before the new Commission can give their views and I should myself feel happier if we clinched the matter now. This might save us a great deal of trouble later on.

2.
At Eisenhower’s suggestion we have made the preamble less harsh. We have also provided that armistice of September 3rd will remain operative.
3.
See also Uncle Joe passim.2
  1. Copy transmitted to the Department by the British Embassy on September 25.↩
  2. See supra.↩